Noob with Coopers Kit

[pyrobrew]

Hello there, I'm just getting into brewing and I'm glad I found this site

Basically I have a few questions and concerns about my first brew.

I'm mixed up on how much corn sugar I should use to prime my beer. I read: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f39/ignore-instructions-do-not-bottle-after-5-10-days-78298/ That's cool but my batch is 23L. (I'm from Canada and our gallons are slightly different also).

Basically how much corn sugar should I use to prime my 23L of beer? Or how much is recommended per liter?

I have 1L bottles for my beer and I'm not sure if I'll just put the corn sugar in each bottle make a priming mixture and put it in the entire batch and then pour the bottles.

After reading quite a bit here I do have one main concern right now: I have some small fine scratches on the lid of my Primary Fermenter. I did sanitize everything the best I could. However should I be concerned about those scratches? Should I go out and get another lid asap and replace it?

Lastly After I pitched my yeast at about 21c I put a beer belt on my Fermenter. I thought the beer belt was meant to 'regulate' the temperature. After about 48 hours I learned I was wrong. My beer was fermenting at about 27-30c. Until I removed the beer belt. Is this going to turn my beer into apple juice?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Skaggz]

If you have the same beer belt that I have, all it does is apply heat. 21°C is a few degrees warm to start with.

As far as your priming sugar question.
Check out this calculator--->Tasty Brew
Use a calculator, such as this one--->Volume converter To convert your maple leaf liters to US gallons.
It's usually recommended to add your sugar to about 2 cups of water (yes I know you're looking for metric, but I'm an American). Boil it, and then add to your bottling bucket before you rack your beer into it.

 

[FungusBrew]

Shoot for around 20degrees C for most beers.

As for carbonating/bottling, I'd recommend you invest in a bottling bucket. Use 3/4cup priming sugar per 19L of beer. So for 23L I'd use a little over 3/4cup. Boil the sugar with a little water for about 5 minutes. Pour this into another clean (preferably a *bottling bucket), and siphon the beer on top of this. From here you're good to bottle.

 

[pyrobrew]

Thanks for the replies. That will help with my conversions.

Lesson learned on the temps. From reading my kit instructions it said aim for 21°C-27°C. I'm currently sitting at 21°C so I'm guessing I'll be okay. It was indeed too hot when I started, I guess I'll just patiently wait and see how it turns out.